Shanghai officials will limit access to food and hospitals in some areas of the city over the next three days.

It will be the most severe phase of the city’s lengthy lockdown.

Commercial food delivery are not permitted, and all visits to hospitals must first be approved.

Neighbors of Covid-19 cases, as well as others living nearby, are being put into official quarantine centers.

Shanghai’s restrictions are now in their sixth week.

Although confirmed cases have decreased dramatically since their peak, authorities have yet to achieve “societal zero.”

No infections are documented outside of quarantine institutions.

Shanghai officials claim that residents in half of the city’s districts are now allowed to leave their houses and wander around.

Propaganda recordings showing departing medical staff visiting city landmarks and taking photographs have been shown by state media.

Officials have imposed several restrictions for the next three days, known as “quiet intervals.”

These include only allowing government food delivery, not letting inhabitants to “step out” of their front doors, and demanding committee consent for anyone other than emergency cases to visit hospitals.

Locals are having difficulty getting emergency ambulances to arrive swiftly, with some patients being forced to travel to hospitals in private cars.

Despite testing negative, state censors moved fast to clear up any doubts regarding the disinfection’s legality.

There was removal of huge numbers of people from their houses.

People who have been removed from their homes and placed in central quarantine have been instructed to leave a key to their residence, generally in the door, so that officials can come in and sanitize the area.

Some legal experts have questioned whether or not this action is “constitutional.”